Samuel f



(No Model.)

s. F. OLIVER &YJ. M. REED.

DOOR CHECK.

No. 490,920. Patented Jam 31, 1893.

zfizverziam Q/ Q m/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL F. OLIVER AND JAMES M. REED, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK; SAID REED ASSIGNOR TO SAID OLIVER.

DOOR-CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,920, dated January 31, 1893.

Ap lication filed April 30, 1892. Serial No. 431,380. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- D. The rod G, has a projection or the like h,

Be it known that we, SAMUEL F. OLIVER and adapted to engage the bearing H, to prevent JAMES M. REED, both citizens of the United the rod from becoming detached therefrom. States, and residents of Brooklyn, in the We prefer to have the projection h, extend 5 countyof Kings and State of New York, have from the same side of the rod G, as the bar invented certain new and useful Improve- E, which will permit a half revolution of rod ments in Door-Checks, of which the following G. When the projection is cast with the rod is a specification. G, we place a groove '5, on the inner side of Our invention has for its object to provide the tube f, and outer side of the plate e, to reto a door check that will not only prevent a full ceive the projection h, (see Fig. 4..) To place opening of the door, but will automatically the rod G, in its bearings it is turned so that look or fasten the door closed when the latter the projection h, extends toward the plate 6,

is pushed shut while the check is in the fas as in Fig. 4. The rod G, is then passed into tening position. the tube f, and the projection h, slides in the I 5 The invention consists in the novel details groove 71, until it passes beyond the tube f.

of improvement and the combinations of When the bar E, now swings down as in Fig.

parts that will be more fully hereinafter set 1, or extends outwardly as in Fig. 3, the proforth and then pointed out in the claims. jection h, will be out of line with the groove Reference is to be had to the accompanying 7/, and the rod G, will be locked in its bearings 2o drawings forming part hereof wherein, by the bar E, and projection h. But the pro- Figurelisafront view of our improvements jection h, can be arranged in any suitable shown applied toa door and its frame orjamb; manner, say by inserting a pin in the rod G. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof; Fig. 3 Our device operates as follows :In the noris a perspective view thereof, showing the mal position the bar E, hangs down as in Fig.

25 parts in the locked position, and Fig. 4 is a 1. To adjust the parts to hold the door the detail View hereinafter explained. bar is lifted to about a horizontal line, and

In the accompanying drawings the letter A, the rod G, moved longitudinally in its bearindicates a suitable door and B, is the frame ings until the bar E, is in line with the openor jamb. ing 19, in the bracket D. The door being now 0 D, is a bracket or frame that is preferably opened the bracket D, slides along bar E, the

secured to the door A, near its vertical edge latter then passing into opening b, between adjacent to the jamb B. The bracket D, has arms a, 0,, and lip d, d, see Fig. 3. The head two arms a, a, forming between them an open- F, limits the movement of bracket D, and thus ing 1), to receive a bar or arm E, (see Fig. 3.) the door is fastened partly open. I When the 5 The arms a, a, have inwardly projecting lips door is closed the bracket D, will pass back of d, d, that prevent the bar E, from moving sidebar E, and free from the same, whereupon the wise from the bracket D. The bar E, has a latter will swing down, leaving the end of rod head or enlargement F, at its outer end with G, in front of bracket D, (see dotted lines in which the bracket D, or its arms a, a, come in Fig. 2) whereby the door becomes locked shut. 40 contact. The bar E, is carried by a rod or the This action is automatic. To permit the door like G, that slides longitudinally, and may toopentherod G,isslidlongitudinallythrough rotate, in bearings or the like H, to be secured its hearings to carry its end and the bar E,

to the frame or jamb B, or the part opposite from in front of the bracket D, as in full lines to that which carries the bracket D. The Figs. 1 and 2. 5 bearings H, are shown consisting of a plate e, The device is simple in construction, not

carrying a tube f, in which the rod G, fits. liable to get out of order and can be operated The rod G, at g, the point of connection with by any ordinary person.

the bar E, is narrower than the distance be- The rod G, and bar E, can be pivotally contween the lips d, d, of bracket D, whereby said nected as shown by dotted line E, in Fig. 3. 50 lips are permitted to pass across said rod, to Having now described our invention what allow it to enter the opening I) in the bracket we claim isz=- 1. The combination of the bracket D, with a bar having an enlargement F, and a rod G,

carrying said bar, said rod being longitudinally movable to permit the bar E, to engage the bracket D, and to remain in front of said bracket When the door is closed, substantially as described.

2. In a door check, the combination of a bracket having arms a, a, and lips 61, d, a 1ongitudinally movable rod G, and bearings for said rod, said rod being narrower at g, than the distance between the lips d, d, and with a bar E, having enlargement F substantially as described.

3. In a door check, the combination of a bracket D,With a bar E, having a head or enlargement F, a rod G, carrying said bar, a projection h, on said rod extending in about the same direction as the bar E, bearings for the rodG, and a groove in the back of said bearings to receive said projection, whereby when the projection h, is passed through said groove and the rod G, turned, the latter will be locked in its bearings, substantially as described.

Signed at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, this 18th day of April, A. D. 1892. SAMUEL F. OLIVER. [L. s.] JAMES M. REED. [L. s.] WVitnesses:

CARL MAYER, HENRY HUND. 

